Using Animation Movies to Enhance Student’s Listening Skill : A Comparative Study Between Using and Not Using English Subtitles

This study is entitled “Using Animation Movies to Enhance Student’s Listening Skill : A Comparative Study Between Using and Not Using English Subtitles”. This is based on phenomenon of students low ability in critical listening and it needs to be improved. This research was conducted
to investigate the extent to which achievement of students between using English subtitle better than that of without English subtitles, and to explore the perceptions of the students in learning listening by using movies with
English subtitles and without English subtitles. In obtaining the data, the writer did an experimental study at class XI Merah and XI Putih of SMAN Unggul Tunas Bangsa which involved 32 students in the XI Merah and 32
students in the XI Putih class. The writer used experimental method in experimental and control group which including pre-test and post-test design. The result showed that there was a significant improvement on students‟ listening skill by using animation movie as media. It was found by comparing pre-test and post-test score. Based on the data obtained, the writer concluded that their listening skill have increased after using animation movies. In experimental group that without using English subtitle they got higher score than control group with using English subtitle. It can be proved by the pre test and post test mean of students‟ listening. From ttest result, it can be seen that the class which is taught by animation movies without using English subtitles get higher score (94.21) than the class which
is taught by animation movies with using English subtitle (92.50). it indicates that with using animation movie without English subtitle students more critical in listening than with using English subtitle. Also, the perception of students in learning listening by using animation movies with using and without using English subtitles, both of the classes have differentreasons and choices in answer the questionnaire.